Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1887-05-12
The Jury DeIiberating.
At Midnight the Jury in the
McGurk Case Were
Locked up
Concluding Evidence and the
Argument of Counsel-Room
for a Speculation.
District Court.

District Court.
TWENTIETH AND TwENTY-FIRsT DAYS
We give this morning a synopsis Of
the remainder of the testimony In the
case OF the Territory vs.. John McGurk
At the time the trial OF this case
commenced the county attorney wa.
Ill at his house and ut his request the
court appointed Arthur II. O'ConDor,
ESD, as acting county attorney. Al.
though the county attorney has been
present In the court room during part
Of the trial, and since his convslesc.
ence, he has not actively engaged in
the trial, the case having begun and
proceeded at length with Mr.. OCon-
nor Is his representative.
John 0xley called by the prosecu-
tion testified as follows: Reside in
Miles City; was here In August last; |
saw Mrs. Stupe the night she came in
at the depot; 1t was then between |
and 2 o'clock; didn't see her talking
to anyone there; saw her walking up
and down the platform; next saw her
nearly in front Of the Grand Central
hotel ON the same morning sometime
between daylight and sun up; she was
standing still when | saw her, talking
to colored lady; | walked down the
street and turned and came back and
she stepped up TO me; she looked al
that time rs II she was pretty much
excited; she would walk fast awhile
and then cry, though didn't see her
shed any tears; / took her to the
Ranchmen's hotel owned by George
Rhode. on Park street, snd left her in
a room there; when / met her she ap
peared to want to tell me that she had
been badly treated or something o.
that kind; / couldn't understand what
she said; IL must have been shout
O'Clock at that time.
Rachel Craddock testified on behalf
Of the prosecution as follows: Reside
IN Miles City; | saw the lady, Mrs.
Stupe, last August; she came out OF
Mr.. Peppers and asked me If | knew
him; she walked out Of the door and
asked me to stop; l was over by the
Grand Central hotel when | first seen
her; she was crying at that time; i
talked with her ten or twenty min
utes; she made no complaint, only
asked me who lived there.
George Rhode testified as follows:
Have lived in Miles City since
1882; was living here last Au-
gust; / Keep the Ranchmen's hotel;
"a y Mrs. Stupe last August at my
house; saw her fret about or IL
o'clock on the 10Th Of August; my wife
was present at that time; she made 9
complaint to me; she was excited and
crying at the time; | talked to hel
about ten minutes; don't know jus
how many days she staid at my house
che told me where che was hurt; sh,
told me she was hurt on the breast;
seen her breast when she was sleeping
ana saw a mark across II; II looked
kind of yellow or blue; the bruis'
might have been an inch or NOR
long; she told me that rape had beer
committed upon her; seen McGurl
at my saloon the next day about II
o'clock; he came to NE and said tina
Pepper had done some dirt last nigh
with q woman who WAS stopping a
my house, and that she was simpl,
common woman, gave her $40 an'
the thing was settled; | told him
would see about II; | saw McGurl
again In about an hour; he came int
my saloon in u hurry, | was benin,
the bar, and said Rhode | want TO Sc
you; you must settle this business; b.
said Rhode here Is $50; | told him
had money Of my own, and he told m
II | wanted more, $50 or $40 OF as mucl
as wanted, TO take It and settle Il
when he bought the drinks he left s.
on the counter TO pay for them an,
said you needn't mind about tn
change; had two physicians called
DIR. Redd and DIR. Wood.
Mrs. George Rhode testified a. fol
lows: Live in Miles City; was here IL
Miles City last August; know Mrs
Stupe; first saw her at my house; had
q conversation with her; she said SHE
had been raped; she was sitting In bel
room at that time crying; she was very
nervous aud did not appear to kno"
what she was saying; she was hurt on
the knee; there was blue spot on IT,
I did not see any other bruises but she
complained; DIR. Wood and DR.. Redo
examined her; she was sick at heI
stomach while there.
DIR. Wood testified ~ follows; Live
| In MIlaa City. am n phyaiciaD. know